Dr Paula Hamilton PhD, BA (Hons), FHEA
Senior Lecturer
Summary
My main areas of interest in terms of teaching and research include gendered crime, criminal justice policy and practice, penology and desistance from crime. I am Course Leader for the MSc Criminology and Criminal Justice Practice and am involved in teaching on a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate modules and in supervision at Undergraduate, Masters and Doctoral level.
About
My teaching and research interests include gender and crime/criminal justice, particularly violence against women; penology; criminal justice/penal policy, and the use of qualitative methods, particularly narrative enquiry, in criminological research.
I was awarded a University Inspirational Teaching Award for the academic year 2011/12.
Teaching
Department Of Law and Criminology
College of Social Sciences and Arts
Research
I am currently completing my doctoral research; a narrative enquiry into how people desist from a previously criminal lifestyle and of the role of contemporary rehabilitative interventions in that process.
I have been have been involved in a range of contract research, for example an investigation of the efficacy of help lines for victims and perpetrators of domestic violence at Manchester University, and an evaluation of a multi-agency service to respond to domestic violence with the Hallam Centre for Community Justice.
Publications
Book chapters
Hamilton, P. (2016). Emotions and identity transformation. In Robinson, A., & Hamilton, P. (Eds.) Moving on from crime and substance use: transforming identities. (pp. 19-42). Bristol: Policy Press: https://policypress.co.uk/moving-on-from-crime-and-substance-use#book-detail-tabs-stison-block-content-1-0-tab2
Hamilton, P. (2016). Extending the ‘desistance and recovery debates’: Thoughts on identity. In Robinson, A., & Hamilton, P. (Eds.) Moving on from crime and substance use: Transforming identities. (pp. 9-18). Bristol: Policy Press: http://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1t88xzs.5
Goodwin, S. (2016). Lived desistance: understanding how women experience giving up offending. In Robinson, A., & Hamilton, P. (Eds.) Moving on from crime and substance use: transforming identities. (pp. 67-90). Bristol: Policy Press: http://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1t88xzs.8
Robinson, A. (2016). Growing out of crime? Problems, pitfalls and possibilities. In Robinson, A., & Hamilton, P. (Eds.) Moving on from crime and substance use: transforming identities. (pp. 91-120). Bristol: Policy Press: https://policypress.co.uk/moving-on-from-crime-and-substance-use
Burrows, J. (2016). Fear and loathing in the community: sexual offenders and desistance in a climate of risk and 'extreme othering'. In Robinson, A., & Hamilton, P. (Eds.) Moving on from crime and substance use transforming identities. (pp. 153-174). Policy Press: https://policypress.co.uk/moving-on-from-crime-and-substance-use
Sloan, J. (2016). Men, prison and aspirational masculinities. In Robinson, A., & Hamilton, P. (Eds.) Moving on from crime and substance use: Transforming identities. (pp. 43-66). Bristol: Policy Press: http://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1t88xzs.7
Best, D. (2016). Social identity, social networks and social capital in desistance and recovery. In Robinson, A., & Hamilton, P. (Eds.) Moving on from crime and substance use: Transforming identities. (pp. 175-194). Bristol: Policy Press: http://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1t88xzs.12
Irving, J. (2016). Alcoholics anonymous: Sustaining behavioural change. In Robinson, A., & Hamilton, P. (Eds.) Moving on from crime and substance use: Transforming Identities. (pp. 195-228). Bristol: Policy Press: http://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1t88xzs.13
Hamilton, P., & Albertson, K. (2015). Reflections on values and ethics in narrative inquiry with (ex-)offenders. In Cowburn, M., Duggan, M., Robinson, A., & Senior, P. (Eds.) Values in criminology and community justice. (pp. 329-342). London: Policy Press
Books
Robinson, A., & Hamilton, P. (Eds.). (2016). Moving on from crime and substance use: Transforming identities. Bristol: Policy Press. https://policypress.co.uk/moving-on-from-crime-and-substance-use
Reports
Hamilton, P., Wilkinson, K., Meadows, L., & Cadet, N. (2008). The answers are within me. An evaluation of a person centred counselling service for men at HMP Doncaster who have had experience of domestic violence 2005-2007. Sheffield: Sheffield Hallam University. http://www.shu.ac.uk/research/hccj/publications_reports.html